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Written by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-01-28 at 14:24

What, people are freaking out about #windows11 now?

That writing was already on the wall (in bold, italic, lots of !!!s) when I wrote this thing in 2021 - "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/2021_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html about my then-new laptop and #openbsd support.

That machine is still quite usable with OpenBSD, thank you! #opensource #freesoftware #libresoftware (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html tracked, prettified)

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Written by zombiewarrior on 2025-01-28 at 14:26

@pitrh lol usable for programming prolog in vim

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Written by Robert Link on 2025-01-28 at 14:26

@pitrh Open Source, generally, is motived by a desire to get things done. Proprietary is motived, generally, by a desire to cash in on the planned obsolesce cycle which drives modern consumerist capitalism. So, of course your OS requires the newest hardware, which, coincidentally, requires the newest OS, and this way to the great egress, sucker.

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Written by contrasocial on 2025-01-28 at 14:57

@pitrh

There is no "lush oasis" of open source systems, there are a bunch of jank hobbiest reskins of Debian that inherit all it's terrible design flaws and broken dependencies, and then there's stuff for server nerds and people who want to delete their OS kernel.

The Linux dev community has utterly failed to meet the moment, and all the righteous talk about wanting to move people away from Windows has been hot air.

Normal users are not going to adapt to linux, linux must be adapted to them.

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Written by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2025-01-28 at 21:00

@contrasocial I can't speak to your apparently negative experience of Debian and derivatives.

My longtime preference has been for OpenBSD (not a Linux or downstream of Debian), which should be obvious from the article.

The three part series starting with https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-started/ is a bit more wide ranging (also available in the raw form as one big article at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html)

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